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Cacciato posted...

I like when these events happen because its always great to see the ones who come out and defend the guy like well, black people say it so its fine.

I think a middle ground is more appropriate. Guy deserves some backlash for it, but what's happening to him is extreme. When people of one race can do/say something without consequence and someone of a different race does/says the same thing and it destroys their life, it feels like an instance of racial inequality, or even racial oppression.

It's a vulgar and poisonous word, and I agree with where he says "There are no excuses to use this type of language, ever." It's a word that should be allowed to fade into the annals of history, only brought up for historical reference if at all.

Words only have as much power as people give them, and I think people have given this word an extreme and racially inequal amount of power. If it is to remain in people's lexicons, it should be normalized so as to remove that power. If people are going to say it, it shouldn't matter what color the person's skin is, and they should face as much or as little backlash as anyone else using it the same way.

It strikes me as inexplicably strange that a society supposedly striving for racial equality would so staunchly defend and maintain this instance of inequality.

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